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A bit late this month, but as it’s 50 days till the 50th, and this one is certain to re-appear, does anyone have any thoughts on this chap – One David Tennant?
I rewatched this recently. Once you know that a lot of the aliens were concept designs accumulated over the life of the show, it can be interesting to see if you can work out what episodes/species they were for.
One that really interested me though was in the Market place, and I wondered if it was a concept for the Ice Warriors before they went for CGI in the end. It’s the mouth that tends to make me think this. I tried a couple of screen grabs and an edit to show what I meant (thanks for @craig for the upload).
I actually popped in because when I was in York I was reminded of a bit of genius that touches on Doctor Who. So a post with a lot of links, some to do with Who! And a question – Is there a more loveable nerd than Neil Hannon in music?
This is the bloke who wrote the Father Ted theme (remind yourself) and then released a lyric version that turned it into a lament of teenage lust in “Songs of Love”:
Got Daniel Radcliffe to appear on a “Duckworth Lewis Method” cricketing themed spin-off due to some tangential involvement by Hannon with the Jarvis Cocker fronted Wyrd Sisters in the Harry Potter movies.
Very Fifth DoctorAnd was also Murray Golds first choice as vocalist on a couple of big band productions for Who had he been available. Here is his version of “Love Don’t Roam”, the song playing at Donna’s reception in Runaway Bride.
And here is his version of “Song for Ten”.
What a bloody nerd! Oh – his version of “Word Up” by Cameo is fantastic as well. No bright red codpieces, but plenty of banjo.
Any other nominations for nerd of the decade gratefully received.
Oooooh – cover envy. That’s new! I had the rather less scary:
Still the same internal illustrations though.
I don’t find Pertwee chimes with much of my ideal of the Doctor, but I think I appreciate him a lot more than others. I think there is at least some explanation that he’s being difficult because he’s in the last place he wants to be. He is no Six, who dials the unpleasant aspect to 11 with no apparent reason. His relationships with companions always seemed to have bad starts but grew with some affection to become enjoyable.
I just worked out that I was 13 months old when this was first broadcast, so it is before my original viewing experience. Still loving it though.
We’ve jumped into a couple of Doctors and companions adventures with 4 and 7, and then saw a regeneration episode for 5. Only natural I suppose to cover the introduction to a companion then, and here we do with Jo Grant.
One thing about this period that (in my experience anyway) throws a few people, is jarring scene transfers. A few people I’ve tried to introduce it to suggest it seems a little piecemeal in approach, and I think I know where they are coming from. Once you get used to the approach though, there is a lot to like.
If you’ve only ever seen the AG years, the one thing you can understand is how the Doctor loves his bizarre lifestyle travelling through time and space. With the Third Doctor, he is denied that freedom and confined to Earth. Hence, he’s more than a little grumpy and prone to pick arguments with authority figures.
Jo’s introduced as a wide eyed novice to the spy world of UNIT. I love the little confrontation with the Brig as he suggests that, if the Doctor wants rid of her, he should be the one to do it. The little gleam in his eye suggests he knows that this is a battle he will win. What’s astonishing considering the legends that have built up around the Brig and the Doctor is how little time they actually spend together even in this, their most active partnership. In the scenes they do share there is a growing understanding in their little games of one-upmanship however.
Jo replaced the Third Doctors original companion, Liz Shaw. It was a shame it was all done off screen, but the reveal that Liz had stormed off complaining that all the Doctor wanted was someone to hand him his test tubes still makes me laugh, because it just seems to sum up Liz. Having a scientist as a companion was a great idea, but showed some of the problems in writing for a companion like that. She was either baffled by the weird science of the Doctor, or they were exchanging technobabble. In many ways the companion is there to ask the stupid questions, and I sometimes wonder if Jamie and Jo are so well remembered because that’s what they did so well.
It’s hard to believe that easily swayed plastic factory owner Rex Farrell is played by Michael Wisher, who went on to play an altogether more domineering character in Genesis of the Daleks:
Above all though – Delgado. He has few words here, but perhaps the quietness is all it needs? It’s hard to equate the Master of this period to the modern lunatic. Poor Goodge. Our first introduction to tissue compression elimination, and the delights of leaving a shrunken corpse as a calling card. He never even got to eat the egg he didn’t want!
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I think it was @arkleseizure in the first part of this blog that raised the point of just how often entire plot lines used to revolve around a member of the TARDIS crew meeting a convenient doppelganger to enable a plot. I think the lesson is – all of space and time, but so few faces to go round. So let’s play
Who’s who?
Spot the difference in Enemy of the World, as Doctor 2 meets Salamander.
A bizarre Two Doctors episode, or is Doctor Six about to shoot Doctor Five, before pressing the button to vaporise him in Arc of Infinity. A story that is actually twice as long as Fires of Pompeii, but can feel twice as long as Children of Earth.
Doctor Who and the Two Romanas? Just before she became Romana II, Lalla Ward was in the preceding story The Armageddon Factor. Romana I apparently liked the face of Princess Astra.
It’s a taste she probably got after visiting Tara, in which she was a dead ringer for Princess Strella in Androids of Tara. In a story which also featured android duplicates of Romana and Strella, that was an awful lot of Mary Tamm for your money.
Nyssa also turned out to have a co-evolutionary developed doppelganger in Black Orchid.
